Hallmark Cards Shuttering Kansas Printing Plant

KANSAS CITY, MO—Hallmark Cards will shut down its manufacturing plant in Topeka, KS, resulting in 300 lost jobs as it consolidates its Kansas operations at remaining facilities in Lawrence and Leavenworth. The Topeka facility will close by the end of 2013.

Greeting card and envelope production will move from the company’s Topeka Production Center to its manufacturing facility in Lawrence, KS. Production of specialty items such as stickers, ribbons and bows will transfer from the Lawrence Production Center to Hallmark’s facility in Leavenworth, KS.